Mulching with pea straw

Summer 2016 at the organic garden !

Potatoes are ready ! 
Harvesting some of our potatoes

Planting out new flowers : To attract butterflies, bees and other insects!

Pea straw: We mulch our garden beds to keep moisture in and it helps keep weeds from growing

Room 15

Room 2 - They would like to develop this little space near their classroom - Watch this space ! 

our lettuces are growing well, we mulch the soil ( "blanket" to stop the water being evaporated by the sun )

yellow tomatoes ready to eat, and our cucumber is delicious ! 

A very hot day and the soil needed lots of water so the plants can drink it !

We weeded this area, turned the soil around to make it fluffy, planted some onion seeds and then watered it ! Grow ONIONS grow!!

Room 3 - Watering the flower/herb pots near their class that they look after! 

Lavender, Rosemary and Thyme! Smells really nice!

Room 14 and their own classroom garden ! Sunflowers are huge ! They need lots of water! 

Room 6 planted cabbages, cauliflowers and broccoli 

Close up of the Broccoli and cabbage seedlings

Room 7 - Redeveloping our HERB GARDEN ! removed grass and other weeds, planted parsley and lavender and used rocks to landscape!

Garlic harvesting room 9

We know our garlic is ready after it has been 6 months in the ground and the bottom leaves are turning brown and it is almost the longest day of the year ! 

Garlic in brown bag with instructions to hang bulbs outdoors in a shaded place away from rain for 2 days till bulbs are dry then ready to eat ! 

Kiera , Cody , Eamon and Finnean with the garlic they harvested today ! 

Weed busters in action !

Great work by a few keen volunteers from Room 11 ! Thank you for helping making the school grounds look beautiful ! 

Rooms 6 and 7 - Term 4 in the garden

ROOM 3 - Winter -Term 3 2015

Room 3 - Welcome to the School and to your Veggie Garden at school !
Great to work with you in the garden !
We talked about seeds and about the lifecycle of a plant.
Then we planted lettuce seeds in pots. 
We will keep our pots in the potting shed and water it every week so our seed can grow! 

Adding the seed raising mix to the pot

This is our classroom outdoors !

ROOM 9 - Winter - Term 3 2015

TERM 3 - Room 9 in the garden
Preparing the soil for spring 
We added our own CTS made organic compost, sheep manure that was kindly donated to us and a layer of pea straw. 

We removed some new weeds, then raked the soil slowly back and forth to level the surface
We added organic compost to feed the soil, then we planted garlic that will be ready in the summer !

Our chalk board in our potting shed !